Expectations for the Charlotte Hornets this season are super low. The over/under for the team’s win total is set at 23.5 by most sports books, the lowest in the NBA. But with low on court expectations come dreams of future grandeur. Bad teams get high draft picks, obviously, and the Hornets have a chance to be the worst of the worst.
If they’re not bad, we can enjoy the pleasant surprise of a young team galvanizing around a superstar-less core to shock the world. If they are bad, well, that’s what we expected, and now we have the draft to look forward to.